Sociology of the Next Society Multiple Modernities, Glocalization and Membership Order

Introduction.-  Part I Inventory of Sociological Theory.-  State of research.-  Transitional Situation.-  Outlook: Difference in Membership Conditions.-  Part II Retrospective view: Western modernizations.-  Question.-  
First
 modernity and modernization.-  
Second
 modernity and modernization.-  
Third
 modernity and modernization.-  Redeployment of solidarity integration.-  Outlook: The end of Western modernization.-  Part III Global Studies.-  Motive force and research program.-  Renewal of the concept of society.-  Dimensions of globalization.-  Outlook: Permanent irritation.-  Part IV Third research programme: Multiple modernities, membership and globalization.-  Reference problem.-  Culture: correction of the fundamentals.-  Working hypothesis.-  Integration theory .-  Research foci of membership orders.-  Outlook: Changed basic situation, self-irritation, and learning.-  Part V Membership order of Chinese society without solidarity integration.-  China's modernization.-  Stabilization in difference.-  Modernization without harmony: main conflicts.-  Outlook: further modernization.-  Part VI Sociology of the next society: Redeployment of sociological theory.-  Postmodernism, differentiation of institutions.-  Functional systems.-  An observation: flood of scandals.-  Populism.-  Transition to the next society.-  Globalization research and socio-structural semantics.-  Self-description of the next society.-  Outlook: Inhomogeneous social structure.